How are nostr relays doing on storage? I’d like to see more information from relay’s about how much data they persist to serve up for event requests or how small their rolling window for event persistence may be!
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Up to 100gb since there is no post ratelimiting on strfry and spammers are going to town. I may just drop the whole DB and start it over when it gets too big
Just turn it into a spam honeypot black hole.
Damn very cool, might be fun to play around with database clean processes that hunt for spam or low engagement content from low rep accounts and purges it on a schedule.
Do any relay frameworks support storage limit functionality, where once that limit is hit, the oldest content is deleted to make room for newer?
Does reporting spam help at all with this, or irrelevant?
Also, what about a delete, or delete-tagging option? Looooot of duplicate posts, accounts, etc. discrepancies
A delete tag feature is interesting, I think that’s a good idea. I don’t think we should ever expect a relay to delete an event, that’s up to them, but it would lie cool to broadcast a delete tag that could be displayed on the post and it would be up to the relay if they want to display the tag or actually delete the event.
Is there a turnkey way for someone to backup their content and the content of everyone they follow to a personal relay? Seems like this would be useful before relays start deleting people’s content.
I know I can use #[4] for my stuff going forward but it won’t have my historical content or the content of those I follow.
Wait yeah so where do my posts live?
Relays store them and serve them up to other clients so they can see what you said. Paid relays will become a popular product because you’ll be able to ensure persistence of your content, ensure it’s served up to other users so they see you more often, host images for you to link directly in posts, lots of things.